Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced a bill at the end of April calling for both confrontation and competition with China.

A draft text of the WTO TRIPS Waiver, which is designed to facilitate production of Covid-19 medicines in developing countries, has language that could exclude China from its scope. At a WTO meeting on Friday, China raised objections to specific aspects of that language.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues: * A draft of China's Export Control Law, new rules on foreign-invested telecom companies, tariff cuts on coal, and imports of aquatic products from Kenya. * A new list of Chinese companies subject to delisting on U.S. stock markets, details

At a press conference today in Canada, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai was asked a couple questions about the possible removal of the Section 301 tariffs.

In a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) requested the FCC "to ensure dangerous Chinese telecommunications firms present in the U.S. are unable to evade restrictions and impair American national security."

At a Peterson Institute event last week, Fred Bergsten discussed his new book entitled "The United States vs. China: The Quest for Global Economic Leadership."

At an event hosted by the Milken Institute on Monday, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai responded to questions related to the U.S.-China trade relationship in general, and on the U.S. Section 301 tariffs on China in the context of concerns about inflation. She also talked about